He was a huge story by Yahoo News and the like…at least until the truth started to come out.

And now it’s a huge story on Fox News. I still don’t get what it has to do with the effort to end the criminalization of homosexuality.

Then I’ll explain it to you. Smollett was a gay black actor who said he was attacked by someone spouting about MAGA. The media jumped all over that story when it first came out because it fell right into the stereotype about Trump and his supporters that they were trying to sell.
And it contrasts to the story in the current thread, which is reality.

Fox “News”, Drudge, CEC wingnut talkies, and the rest of the right-wing outrage brigade lost their ■■■■ when this girl claimed some Obama supporters jumped her and carved “B” on her cheek.

Remember your outrage?

I do too.

Todd had worked as a field representative for the College Republican National Committee since August 2008 and had come to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in mid-October to recruit college students.[3] On October 22, 2008, Todd claimed that she was robbed at knifepoint[4] by a “six-foot-four African American of medium build, dressed in dark clothes wearing shiny shoes” [5] at a Citizens Bank ATM in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. She also alleged that after the robber saw a McCain bumper sticker on Todd’s car, he assaulted her, cut a reversed letter B into her cheek,[6] and told her “you are going to be a Barack supporter.”[7]

Was Doug’s post on the topic of the criminalization of homosexuality? No, it seemed to be trying to blow air on the tired story that Fox News is pushing about a guy looking for attention and sympathy, while at the same time playing on the stereotype of intolerant MAGA people.

My post countered his, showing that attention-seeking morons are on both sides of the aisle and that media outlets are happy to use their actions as propaganda. Right-wing media ran with Backward B girls false story for a week or more, even after it was shown to be false.

No. Mine was relevant because the current thread showed the fake nature of the stereotype being portrayed by MSM in the Smollett case of intolerant anti gay positions.
The Vali story was just saying…here’s an example of a right winger who faked an attack.